Source link Steven Mnuchin told CNBC he is putting together an investor group to try to buy the short-video app Former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said he is building an investor group to acquire TikTok, a day after the House of Representatives voted to force the social media platform’s Chinese owner ByteDance to […]
Source link Washington is moving closer to adopting a law that could remove the Chinese-owned social media platform from US app stores China has lashed out at an ongoing effort to ban the popular TikTok social media platform in the US. According to Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, such a step would violate international trade […]
Source link The Senate is due to vote on a bill which could see the social media platform removed from American app stores TikTok CEO Shou Chew has claimed that banning the social media platform in the US will endanger the livelihoods of thousands of Americans. His comments came after the House of Representatives passed […]
Source link Congress is fast-tracking a proposal targeting the Chinese-owned social media platform The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the platform or face a nationwide ban. Critics have objected that such a move would open the door to unconstitutional censorship. The final vote […]
Source link A bill moving through the House offers a mafia racket-style ‘choice’ to both the Chinese social media app and American digital distributors TikTok is the world’s most downloaded social media app. With over 1 billion active monthly users, it has become a global sensation and surpassed other social media platforms to become the […]
Source link The former US president has claimed that he didn’t want to boost Facebook, which he considers an “enemy of the people” Former President Donald Trump has claimed that he backed down from trying to get TikTok banned in the US because of the video-sharing platform’s popularity among young Americans and his reluctance to […]
Source link New legislation targets apps and social networks controlled by countries Washington considers “adversaries” US lawmakers introduced a bill on Tuesday that could force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest the video app in order to prevent it from being banned in the country. The Congressional bill, dubbed ‘The Protecting Americans From Foreign […]
Source link Critics have denounced US President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign for using a platform it banned federal employees from using US President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has been skewered for flaunting its new TikTok account during the Super Bowl on Sunday, with many pointing out that the administration had only just prohibited federal employees […]
Source link The late jihadist’s justifications for attacks on America have drawn praise on social media amid the Israel-Hamas war More than two decades after the attacks that ignited the US ‘War on Terror,’ Osama Bin Laden’s anti-Jewish letter justifying terrorism against Americans has resonated on social media and captured the imaginations of pro-Palestinian activists […]